Environmental Studies

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Environmental Jargon Creates Exclusion

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

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The author unpacks the ways in which common language and messaging of the mainstream environmental movement can unintentionally function to exclude people of color, especially those in the black … 15 $1.50 Add
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Getting to Food Sovereignty

Grassroots Perspectives from the National Farmers Union Interviews with Terry Boehm and Hilary Moore, conducted by Naomi Beingessner

From: Food Sovereignty in Canada

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Global Economy

From: Getting to Zero

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Analyzes the impact of neo-liberalism, globalization, and free trade on global warming. Presents an analysis of corporate power as the key obstacle to meaningful climate action by governments and … 28 $2.80 Add
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Greening Commerce

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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Topics include: The New Bottom Lines – The Drivers – Implementing Nature’s Strategies – The Trilogy – Growth, Consumption and Pollution – Creating New … 26 $2.60 Add
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How "Green" Lost Its Groove

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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In this chapter, Grover details the ways in which an over-focus on purity is impeding the environmental movement, and reveals a lack of faith in collective action. 12 $1.20 Add
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Hundred Block Rock

From: Fighting For Space

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … 25 $0.50 Add
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Hungry for Something

From: Woman, Watching

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Chapter Three follows Louise’s time as a nurse during the First World War at a Russian POW camp on the Eastern Front. The chapter follows her first meeting and later marriage to Russian … 21 $2.10 Add
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Imagine

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter outlines the HANDY study, which identifies the factors that precipitate societal collapse, and asks whether we are headed for such a collapse. This chapter also imagines a … ; ; ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Initiate

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter explores the Initiate to begin changing our specific behaviours to help address specific issues within the larger fight against climate crisis. This chapter discusses the process and … ; ; ; 63 $6.30 Add
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Sonnet 18

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18." 1 $0.10 Add
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Peak Everything

From: Peak Everything

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This book is not an introduction to the subject of Peak Oil. Instead it addresses the social and historical context in which Peak Oil is occurring, and explores how we can reorganize our thinking … 29 $2.90 Add
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Introduction

From: Development in Latin America

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Canadian Mining in a Time of Violence, Corruption, and Impunity in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala

From: Testimonio

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From: The Culture of Nature

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The author notes that the book is inspired by two events – a trip to Disney World and the Oka protests outside Montreal – and that he has written a cultural history of nature in North … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Keys to Human Permaculture

From: Human Permaculture

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Definitions and Foundations of Classic Permaculture – The Contribution of Human Permaculture – Change the World, Starting with Yourself – Reconnecting with Our Deep Belonging to … ; 47 $4.70 Add
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Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

Making Community Policy

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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For communities to move effectively toward sustainability, citizens and their governments should understand the range of policy instruments available to them and the wider context of how … 12 $1.20 Add